University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa oceanographers discovered that microbial communities in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — ...

More than three miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in perpetual darkness and near-freezing temperatures, the ...

A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel.

One couple takes the "you're on Fiji time now" directive seriously when they order cocktails, which are dutifully made on the ...

Somewhere on the dark floor of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Hawaii and Mexico, a tiny crustacean has been ...

In 2005, the USS San Francisco slammed full speed into a massive mountain under the Pacific. How the stricken vessel narrowly ...

An ancient ocean retained oxygen despite global warming, revealing unexpected insights into oceanic climate change.

However, the deepest depression on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, reaches almost 11,000 meters in depth, at the Challenger Deep. The bathyscaphe Trieste sailing in the waters of the ...

As well as revising the taxonomy of this giant octopus, researchers were able to use this newly identified, well-preserved ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

While an El Niño is often linked to weaker monsoons, it is not always the case. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, ...